Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina had just become a category 1 hurricane when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image on August 25, 2005, at 12:30 p.m., Eastern Daylight Savings Time. The hurricane formed as a tropical depression late on August 23 and developed quickly into a tropical storm by 11 a.m. the next morning. By the time MODIS acquired this image, the storm continued to develop into a category 1 hurricane, the lowest strength category in the hurricane strength scale. Katrina had winds of 120 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour). + Click for high resolution image. Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team